[PRCo] Re: Fantasy___Justifications

[tsquare]

Jim--

Always happy to oblige (couldn't resist it!)

Tom

-----Original Message-----
From: pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org
[mailto:pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org]On Behalf Of Jim
Holland
Sent: Sunday, November 04, 2001 5:07 PM
To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
Subject: [PRCo] Re: Fantasy___Justifications



Good Morning!!

	Excellent observation, Tom   ---   the subject only called for levity and
you
filled the bill perfectly!!!(:->)

> tsquare wrote:

> At $300,000 each, those would have been very special PCC's --
> I wonder if 7 1/2 of them were to be Westinghouse and 2 1/2
> General Electric.

>> On Behalf Of Jim Holland from Dennis Linsky

>> Subject: [PRCo] Fantasy___Justifications

>>         The company used 1000 streetcars in rush hours--about 300 being
>> non-PCC's.  It claimed a loss of about 2 cars a month through
>> retirement, disrepair, or accident.  It also said that the $3,000,000
>> it might have collected  in 1949-50 would have bought 10 new PCC cars
>> had the new fare increase been in effect sooner.

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James B. Holland

Holland  Electric  Railway  Operation
    "O"--Scale  St.-Petersburg Trams Company Trolleycars  &
        "O"--Scale  Parts  mailto:pghpcc at pacbell.net
        Pennsylvania Trolley Museum (PTM) http://www.pa-trolley.org/
    Pittsburgh  Railways  Company  (PRCo),   1930  --  1950
N.M.R.A.  Life member #2190; http://www.nmra.org

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